Birthday Milestone: Celebrating the 110th Anniversary of Opening to the Public and 10th Anniversary of the Centenary Project
Posted on 22 June 2010
On June 22 2010 the Wallace Collection celebrated its 110th anniversary as a national museum open to the public. It has long been considered the greatest private art collection to be bequeathed to any nation ever, and its contents of internationally-important fine and decorative arts, especially from eighteenth-century France, is hard to rival. The 22 June also marked the 10th anniversary of the Centenary Project, offering the visitor a completely new dimension t...